Atom N450 could arrive in October

Intel’s next generation of mobile Atom processor currently known as Pine Trail, might arrive as soon as in October according to a story on Digitimes. The new processor is also said to be given the official name of Atom N450. This is still a single core processor, so for now, forget about a dual core mobile Atom processor. The chipset designed to go with the Atom N450 has so far been known as Tiger Point, it the official name is said to be NM10.

The Atom N450 is the first Atom processor to integrate the memory controller and PCI Express controller among other features into the CPU packaging. It will be interesting to see what this next generation Atom platform will have to offer both in terms of performance and least not in terms of battery life improvements. We’re not going to be missing the 945GSE chipset as long as the new Atom platform from Intel offers an overall better solution. You can find the Digitimes story here